>
> ...and on that note: Has anyone ever made a full accounting of the
> pollution produced in the manufacturing of a new car? All of it?
> Including the manufacturing of all the plastic, rubber, smelting,
> the electricity used in each step, etc.?
Between $17,000 and $25,000 worth. Actually this is pretty well understood.
Fairly simple accounting priniples apply.
> How much pollution has each of us foregone by not buying a new car?
See above.
> The auto industry would like us to believe that we can best contribute
> to the ecology effort by buying a new car every three years because
> a new car is incrementally less polluting than its predecessors.
In the fifties they tried to make us believe it was tail fins that made
the new ones worthwhile.
> So
> how long would you have to drive this new car to make the incremental
> difference worthwhile?
> Any of you academics with access to Cray XMP's want to tackle this
> little simulation?
>
Simple accounting principles still apply. I don't need the Cray for that.
Of course I'm not an academic. :-)
Cheers,
Ken
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